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UNITED STATES PATEN T @rrrca THOMAS M. APPLING, OF AUBURN, KENTUCKY.

EGG-CASE.

EPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 339,612, dated April 13. 1886.

Application filed October 5, 1885. SorialXo.179,02-i. (Modem To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, 'lnonas M. APPLING, a citizen of the United States, residing at Auburn, in the county of Logan and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Egg-Gases; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,

clear, and exact description of the same.

This invention has relation to improvements in cases for the transportation of eggs; and it consists in the construction, novel arrangement, and adaptation of devices, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing my inven: tion is illustrated by a perspective view of one of the holderframes removed from the main case.

Referring by letter to the said drawing, A indicates a narrow sheet of pasteboard or other similar material, which is bent to form the frame, of rectangular contour, having its ends overlapped and united by stitches. This frame is provided with parallel transverse vertical partitions C, which are also composed of pasteboard, having their opposite ends bent rectangularly and secured to the opposite sides of the said frame A. These partitions divide the main frame into numerous compartments.

B indicates strips of pasteboard, which are of about the same width as the partitions O,

l and of greater length than the frame A. These strips B are designed to form crescentshaped cells for the eggs, and are placed in the respective compartments in a waved form, the curved portions of these strips B being stitched, respectively, at their curved portions to the partitions, and the outer set of strips to the side walls of the frame.

By the construction shown it will be seen that the entire space within the frame i is occupied by cells.

In practice these frames Aare placed within a shippingoase, which maybe of any ordinary constructiomand protecting or division boards may be placed above and below each frame.

Having described this invention, What I claim is- The combination, in a cell-case, of the rectangular pasteboard frame A, the parallel verbent and stitched to the opposite walls of the main frame, and the waved strips B, arranged in the said compartments and stitched at their curved portions to the partitio11-walls, .to form crescent-shaped cells, substantially as specified.

THOS. M. APPLING. Vitnesses:

G. T. Monoan, DELIA hIORGAN.

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